GREENBELT – The city is finally beginning to recover from the Great Recession, City Manager Michael McLaughlin to the Mayor and City Council last night after her proposed a “breakout” $26.4 million operating budget for 2016.

UPPER MARLBORO – Despite slight concerns about traffic and transportation, the Prince George’s County District Council approved a conceptual site plan to add residential development at the Melford Business Park in Bowie.

BOWIE – Citizens say their voices have not been heard by county officials after County Executive Rushern Baker III proposed a budget that would raise property taxes by 15 percent in an effort to get the school system into the state’s top 10 by 2020.

UPPER MARLBORO – The Prince George’s County Planning Board unanimously approved a revised and detailed site plan for a Walmart store in the DuVall Village Shopping Center in Bowie, but the board chairperson said the company needs to be a better partner to the community.

BOWIE—U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) highlighted his bill to reform the nation’s tax system during a meeting with the Greater Prince George’s Business Roundtable meeting in Vista Gardens Marketplace on Friday.